2025 Shed Season

[WNY Bowhunter]

Let's start it off!

I went out this afternoon trying to find the antlers off of a buck who was missing one side on the morning of 12/18. I had the one side in the bag 9 minutes into my walk and then spent another 3 hours trying to match it without luck.  I'll try again after the snow melts there. Not a bad start, 10.5" G2...

 

Edited December 23, 2024 by WNY Bowhunter

[WNY Bowhunter]

I was headed down to sit in a stand this afternoon and decided to walk through a couple areas that were destroyed with sign the other day where the deer and turkeys were digging through the snow looking for acorns.  Thought maybe I could get lucky and pick up a early shed. Sure enough, stumbled on to #2 of the season. Looks like it'd been down for 2 weeks already...

Edited December 29, 2024 by WNY Bowhunter

[ZAG]

We had plans today that got canceled so im heading down to take a walk and maybe I can stumble across one.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Not the big 150" set I was looking for, but I walked up on this old one in an overgrown grass field that I never check.. 

[WNY Bowhunter]

I don't think that I've ever found 6  sheds by the end of December...

[WNY Bowhunter]

Caught in the act! My cousin just sent me this pic...lol.

[dbHunterNY]

still some holding here. we don't have the deer density i feel like some of this snow has to melt too. hard to find all our little skippers left otherwise. hopefully it warms up just a little so i can get out on public land and cover some ground before the snow melts completely to do some scouting.

[WNY Bowhunter]

1 minute ago, dbHunterNY said:

still some holding here. we don't have the deer density i feel like some of this snow has to melt too. hard to find all our little skippers left otherwise. hopefully it warms up just a little so i can get out on public land and cover some ground before the snow melts completely to do some scouting.

I think I'm going to brave the cold this afternoon and hit up the spot where I found #2 in this thread to see if the deer are still digging for acorns. These are the target sheds, last pic I have of him so idk is he had dropped or not? 

[dbHunterNY]

i hope to get out this weekend on public. won't route around too hard on the farm but do intend on moving cameras around to pick up spots for late winter, Reveals especially.

[WNY Bowhunter]

I'm taking this cam down today before my billing cycle renews on the 27th.

[Nomad]

I hope to hit some neighboring properties this Friday or Sat , I save ours for when we return from Fla .

[WNY Bowhunter]

Was just headed down to this spot when this picture popped up. Looks like I'll wait until Saturday to go down now...

[dbHunterNY]

5 hours ago, WNY Bowhunter said:

I'm taking this cam down today before my billing cycle renews on the 27th.

i've got one Reveal i have to send out for repair but they said don't suspend it. they need it active to fix and test it.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Got lucky and found a decent side-by-side set at my backup spot. Hopefully this might be a spot to turkey hunt this year too... 50 plus birds out there today.

[JohnPlav]

This lopsided guy tried skirting the camera… Guess I’ll go for a shed walk this weekend. 

Edited January 23 by JohnPlav